The modern urban landscape

The modern urban landscape

by Relph, E. C.

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First published in 1987, this book provides a wide-ranging account of how modern cities have come to look as they do - differing radically from their predecessors in their scale, style, details and meanings. It uses many illustrations and examples to explore the origins and development of specific landscape features. More generally it traces the interconnected changes which have occurred in architecture and aesthetic fashions, in planning, in economic and social conditions, and which together h…

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Title Statements

  • Full title :The modern urban landscape / Edward Relph.

Summary

First published in 1987, this book provides a wide-ranging account of how modern cities have come to look as they do - differing radically from their predecessors in their scale, style, details and meanings. It uses many illustrations and examples to explore the origins and development of specific landscape features. More generally it traces the interconnected changes which have occurred in architecture and aesthetic fashions, in planning, in economic and social conditions, and which together have created the landscape that now prevails in most of the cities of the world. This book will be of interest to students of architecture, urban studies and geography.

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Edition Statements

  • Publication Date:2016.

Publication Statements

  • Publisher(s):Routledge
  • Place of Publication:Oxon
  • Language:eng
  • Publication Date:2016.

The Physical Object

  • Description:1 online resource

Edition Identifiers

  • ISBN:9781317212225, 1317212223, 9781315618869, 1315618869, 9781317212218, 1317212215, 9781317212201, 1317212207, 1138667692, 9781138667693, 1138667757, 9781138667754
  • oclc:ocn946157934
  • LC Classification:HT166
  • Dewey Decimal:712/.01

Table of Contents

1. Introduction -- 2. Looking back at the future : late twentieth-century landscapes in the 1890s -- 3. Old styles and new forms in architecture : 1880-1930 -- 4. The invention of modern town planning : 1890-1940 -- 5. Ordinary landscapes of the first machine age : 1900-40 -- 6. Modernism and internationalism in architecture : 1900-40 -- 7. Landscapes in an age of illusions : 1930 to the present -- 8. Planning the segregated city : 1945-75 -- 9. The corporatisation of cities : 1945- -- 10. Modernist and late-modernist architecture : 1945- -- 11. Post-modernism in planning and architecture : 1970- -- 12. Modernist cityscapes and post-modernist townscapes.

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Subjects

ARCHITECTURE -- Landscape Cities and towns Cities and towns -- History -- 20th cen… City Planning City planning -- History -- 20th century GARDENING -- Garden Design GARDENING -- Landscape History Landscape changes Landscape changes -- History -- 20th ce… Paysages -- Modifications -- 20e siècle Villes -- Histoire -- 20e siècle

Writers

Relph, E. C.

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